3M™ VHB™ Tape 4918

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Fast and easy-to-use permanent bonding method provides high temperature strength and long-term durability

Creates a permanent seal against water, moisture, salt, and more

Use tapes to help eliminate drilling, grinding, refinishing, screwing, welding

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Highlights
  • Fast and easy-to-use permanent bonding method provides high temperature strength and long-term durability
  • Creates a permanent seal against water, moisture, salt, and more
  • Use tapes to help eliminate drilling, grinding, refinishing, screwing, welding
  • Pressure sensitive adhesive bonds on contact with no drying time
  • Allows the use of thinner, lighter weight and dissimilar materials
  • Virtually invisible fastening helps keep surfaces smooth; no unsightly rivet heads or weld marks
  • Allows the use of thinner, lighter weight and dissimilar materials

3M™ VHB™ Tape 4918F replaces screws, rivets and studs to permanently adhere one substrate to another while spreading the stress load across the entire length of the joint. Once materials are joined with 3M VHB Tape, a virtually indestructible weld is created. It offers design flexibility with its viscoelasticity and a powerful ability to bond to a variety of surfaces.

3M™ VHB™ Tape 4918F is a fast and easy-to-apply permanent bond that replaces screws, rivets, and studs in appropriate applications. Virtually invisible when completed, this bond requires no drilling, grinding, refinishing, or clean-up while at the same time spreading the stress load evenly across the joint rather than stressing several different points. The pressure sensitive adhesive creates a permanent and nearly indestructible bond on contact with no drying time and seals against water, moisture, salt, and more. 3M™ VHB™ Tape consists of a durable acrylic adhesive with viscoelastic properties. This provides an extraordinarily strong double-sided foam tape that adheres to a broad range of substrates including aluminum, stainless steel, galvanized steel, composites, plastics, acrylic, polycarbonate, ABS, and painted or sealed wood and concrete. These tapes provide excellent shear strength, conformability, surface adhesion, and temperature resistance. They are commonly used in applications across a variety of markets including transportation, appliances, electronics, construction, sign and display, and general industrial. This tape reliably bonds a variety of materials with strength and speed for permanent applications.

Suggested applications
  • Joining transparent material
  • Mount backlit translucent signs
  • Edge-bond resin filled glass
  • Metal, glass, and high surface energy (HSE) substrates
  • Decorative material and trim
  • Nameplates and logos
  • Panel to frame
  • Stiffener to panel

Typical Properties

Adhesive Type

Acrylic

Applications

Mounting & Trim Attachment, Vibration resistant, Alternatives to Rivetting or Welding, Small Joint Assembly, Impact Resistance, Panel to Frame/Stiffner to Panel Assembly, Semi-Structural Bonding

Backing (Carrier) Material

Acrylic Foam

Brands

VHB™

Indoor/Outdoor

Indoor/Outdoor

Industries

Signage, Metalworking, Transportation, Construction

Maximum Operating Temperature (Celsius)

149 °C

Maximum Operating Temperature (Fahrenheit)

300 null

Product Colour

Transparent

Units per Case

12.0

Overall Length (Imperial)

18.1 yd

Overall Length (Metric)

16.5 m, 165 m

Overall Width (Imperial)

0.2 in, 0.4 in, 44.9 in

Overall Width (Metric)

6 mm, 8 mm, 9 mm, 1143 mm

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